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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

Edward Albee

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste

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